I’m excited that my colleague Yvonne and I are going to be sharing some of our methods and practice at the upcoming IA Summit. Here’s what our one day session is going to cover:

Accelerator workshops compress work that could take weeks or even months into a matter of days. Using rapid facilitation techniques, practitioners can tackle common problems that haunt projects that lack buy-in and vision.

Date: March 23rd, 2007

Location: Information Architecture Summit, Las Vegas, Nevada
Price: $US 550 before Feb. 9
Registration: through the IA Summit website
Workshop Leaders: Jess McMullin and Yvonne Shek

Some of the tougher problems we face include aligning large teams, reaching consensus, being able to envision a solution, understanding business drivers, or simply agreeing on a set of features. Often, even after a solution has been reached and well documented, team members flip-flop or back track, fuelling uncertainty within the project and causing stress to the entire team. This frustrating cycle often iterates a number of times before agreement is reached - a process that often takes weeks and sometimes months.

In this full day session, we will introduce the idea of Accelerator Workshops, see why rapid facilitation works, and learn how to plan and conduct workshops that can condense months of work into a matter of days.

Full details and registration at the IA Summit site.